erfgoed is Dutch for “heritage“, and a bot is a little program that automates dumb or boring work for us. erfgoedbot runs at night and harvests the lists at Wikipedia and all the uploaded images with identifiers and updates the laaarge database with this information. Based on this, erfgoedbot puts them in the correct categories at Wikimedia Commons. Finally, it provides Wikipedia with information which monument images are unused so the lists can be completed. And all that while we are sleeping …

The database connects the images on Commons with the monuments lists in Wikipedia via the monuments ID